"Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism."
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"I think it's become such a part of younger people's daily life to have the instant access to each other that it sometimes gets a little presumptuous. People feel like it's OK, for example, to email you with some weird personal criticism they have."
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"If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him."
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"Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct."
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"We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance."
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"Good criticism is very rare and always precious."
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"But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism."
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"No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews."
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"An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace."
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"Sir, there is no end of negative criticism."
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"The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and each labors first to impose upon himself and then to propagate the imposture."
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"The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside"
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"What I don't like from the president's administration is this sort of, 'I'll put my boot heel on the throat of BP.' I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business. And I think it's part of this sort of blame-game society in the sense that it's always got to be someone's fault instead of the fact that sometimes accidents happen."
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"The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot."
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"A bad short story or novel or poem leaves one comparatively calm because it does not exist, unless it gets a fake prestige throughbeing mistaken for good work. It is essentially negative, it is something that has not come through. But over bad criticism one has a sense of real calamity."
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"There's a fine line between participation and mockery."
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"It is better for your career to do nothing, than to do something and attract criticism."
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"What people are afraid of isn't failure. It's blame. Criticism."
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"Criticism is always going to be painful. You live through it. I'll live through it now. It's even harder when you're younger. You don't have the maturity. You're still developing. If you get damaged while you're developing, it's a psychological battle after that. Today, if I get the criticism, I'm not bothered...if I wear the wrong thing, I'm not going to lose sleep over it. Maybe when I was younger, I might have been more affected by that."
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"A life without criticism is not worth living."
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